Benefits

Monitoring - Secure it now! and you can own that unique domain name for LIFE!

Get Listed In Search Engines - even your affiliates and competitors could end up there!

Be open 24x7x365

Help and support - Offer step by step help and support to your customers through online pages and forums to reduce the workload on your staff.

Features

Virus Scanning - All uploaded files are virus scanned as you upload them to ensure no malicious content is being distributed via your website.

State-of-the-art Security with protection against DoS (Denial-of-Service) and other malicious attacks.

99.9% Uptime

Daily backups

The Small Print

* 2GB per month - averaged across a calendar year

** Cloud hosting allows for 1 of the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL or MSSQL as a database backend as standard. Additional backends can be purchased as part of the cloud plan

*** Cloud Capacity Pricing

PHP cloud up to 0.6M page views £10 pm

PHP cloud up to 1.2M page views £20 pm

PHP cloud up to 1.8M page views £30 pm

PHP cloud up to 2.4M page views £40 pm

PHP cloud up to 3.0M page views £50 pm

Tomcat cloud up to 0.6M page views £20 pm

Tomcat cloud up to 1.2M page views £30 pm

Tomcat cloud up to 1.8M page views £40 pm

Tomcat cloud up to 2.4M page views £50 pm

Tomcat cloud up to 3.0M page views £60 pm

ASP cloud up to 0.6M page views £20 pm

ASP cloud up to 1.2M page views £35 pm

ASP cloud up to 1.8M page views £50 pm

ASP cloud up to 2.4M page views £60 pm

ASP cloud up to 3.0M page views £60 pm

What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting or "hosting" is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more web sites. More importantly than the computer space required by the webspace is the fast connection to the Internet to support multiple users browsing your website. As a web hosting company we become a type of landlord, where you rent a type of hosting from us depending on your needs and the technologies involved.

There are 3 main flavours of hosting:

Shared Hosting - This is the most common type of hosting for companies that need a web presence. It is suitable for websites that receive up to 50,000 page views per month. This type of hosting can run many different types of commerical and open source systems to help increase productivity and awareness for your brand.

Virtual Hosting - This is for companies that perhaps have a custom built application and rely upon greater speed and flexibiliy that a server dedicated to them provides.

Dedicated Hosting - This is for companies or individuals that require maximum flexibility in power and security where they have outgrown conventional shared hosting and virtual hosting packages.

Linux versus Windows

When it comes to hosting, Linux has, for some time, been widely considered the best choice for web servers. It's typically found to be the most reliable, stable and efficient system and, as such, it's commonly used for the demanding environment of Web and mail servers. Indeed, facebook.com runs on the Linux OS precisely because of this traditional stability.

The million-dollar question is what application are you looking to use for your hosting? Consider the tools and scripting languages you plan to use – if you use PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the way forward. If apps are Microsoft-specific such as MSSQL and .Net, then Windows is what you need.

If your site, like most web sites, is termed as "brochure-ware" then Linux servers are ideal. Brochure-ware sites will offer some interaction through enquiry forms and can certainly incorporate online purchasing and other routine e-commerce functions.

Linux

Windows

FTP ONLY

Cloud

Monthly Fee No Setup Fees

£3.00 pm

£3.00 pm

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jump to pricing ***

Yearly Fee

£30.00 pa

£30.00 pa

£60 pa

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Min Purchase Length

6 months

6 months

1 Year

1 month

Disk Space

200MB

200MB

1GB

Unlimited

Bandwidth

2GB / month*

2GB / month*

-

Unlimited

FTP Users

1

1

5

1

FTP Plus

+ £15 pa

+ £15 pa

+ £5 pa

+ £15

Secure FTP (FTP over SSH)

+ £45 pa

+ £45 pa

+ £30 pa

+ £45

PCI Compliance

POR

POR

-

POR

Database Support

Databases Included

-

-

-

1 x 150MB MySQL **

MySQL

+ £30 pa - 1 x 25MB

+ £30 pa - 1 x 25MB

-

-

PostgreSQL

+ £45 pa - 1 x 25MB

+ £45 pa - 1 x 25MB

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1 x 25MB PostgreSQL **

Microsoft SQL

+ £45 pa - 1 x 25MB

+ £45 pa - 1 x 25MB

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1 x 25MB MSSQL **

Access

+ £30 pa - 1 x 25MB

+ £15 pa - 1 x 25MB

-

+ £30 pa - 1 x 25MB

phpMyAdmin

-

msSQLAdmin

-

Direct Database Access via SQL Manager

+ £30pa

+ £30 pa

-

+ £10

Subdomains

Unlimited

Unlimited

-

Unlimited

External Aliases

Unlimited

Unlimited

-

Cron Jobs

-

SSL Certificate

+ £80 pa

+ £80 pa

-

+ £80

Linux Features

PHP 5

+ £10 pa

-

PHP 4

+ £15 pa

+ £15 pa

-

Perl / CGI

+ £10 pa

-

Python

+ £10 pa

-

Servlet / JSP via Apache Tomcat

+ £45 pa

+ £45 pa

-

ImageMagick

-

mod_rewrite

-

-

auth_mysql

-

-

Windows Features

Frontpage Server Extensions 2003

-

+ £15 pa

-

+ £15 pa

ASP

-

-

ASP.NET v4.0

-

+ £30

-

ASP.NET v1.0/2.0/3.0/3.5

-

+ £30

-

IIS Password

-

+ £10 pa

-

Server Side Includes (SSI)

-

-

Application Support

osCommerce

-

-

ZenCart

-

Drupal

-

-

Joomla!

-

PostNuke

-

-

SilverStripe

-

-

Typo3

-

-

phpBB

-

vBulletin

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WordPress

-

Movable Type

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MediaWiki

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Twiki

-

OpenX

-

DotNetNuke 4.0

-

-

phpNuke

-

-

YetAnotherForum

-

-

Common Features

Daily Backups (file and databases)

Restores

£30

£30

Raw Log Files

-

AWStats

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We have experienced staff to help you at all points in the process, including creating an easy to use website that requires no technical wizardy - why not get in touch to find out more?